Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the Advocate which appears today contains several bits of verse of the usual Advocate quality, and six stories or sketches, none of which are bad, and two or three of which are well above the average. An unsigned sketch parading under the deceptive title "College Kodaks," produces a very full and clear impression in a page of remarkably simple almost matter of fact narrative. "To Say the Least: Ungentlemanly," by H. Williams, Jr., is much in the Stockton vein. The off-hand rapidity of the action is most admirably suited to its impossible but amusing plot...
Other noteworthy articles are "The Dog's View of It," "How Our Coming Orators are Cultivated," and a short sketch purporting to be written by the author of "Jerome Poor Thing...
...Pictures' Xmas" is a fanciful sketch of a Christmas eve celebration in Memorial Hall in which John Harvard's statue and the familiar portraits and busts come to life and discuss old times and contemporary college affairs...
Noticeable in the number is a scholarly essay entitled "The Idealistic Basis of Thoreau's Genius," by Daniel Gregory Mason 1G.; "Making it Easy for Martha," a somewhat gloomy but clearly drawn story by Arthur Stanwood Pier, and "As Runs the Glass," a rather weird sketch by R. P. Bellows...
Professor Shaler gave a brief sketch of the history of the society, mentioning its relations to Mr. Agassiz and other distinguished Harvard scientists. He also outlined the purposes and ambitions of the society...